THE QUESTION OF MONEY.

»The Germans are an honest people.« One of the greatest of Englishmen was guilty of this bold utterance, speaking to be sure, at a time when the game of moral Humbaiting had not yet become the chief and chivalrous pastime of his countrymen. We Germans would not venture upon any such assertion, for we know full well that we have no more a monopoly of the world’s honesty than of blue eyes or protuberant fronts. We may never« theless be permitted to point out that the keenly«observant negroes of East Africa, with their natural and healthy instincts, have shown during the war that they shared the flattering conclusion arrived at by the Bard of Avon.

In matters of money the negro differs little from other human beings. It is the money test which will most in« fallibly prove who possesses his confidence and who does not.

Two parties confronted one another during the war: The one, the German, the poorer and thriftier, visibly growing poorer during the war: the other, the Englishman, with apparently unlimited stores of money to command. It would naturally be supposed that the negro would be for the Englishman? But softly, softly!

It was plain, to be sure, that the Englishman possessed great stores of money, but to the growing astonishment